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RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/December 2024

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December 2024[edit]

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42A MAGA Twitter war erupts over the subject of H-1B visas. "Tech bros" like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy believe that much more H1-B visas are needed in order to bring foreign talent to the United States in order to be competitive in new tech fields like AI, because American talent supposedly isn't "super motivated" (Musk) and "American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence" (Ramaswamy). This stance infuriated anti-immigrant nativists like Laura Loomer (who called Indians "third-world invaders") and Steve Bannon (who opposed H1-B visas because "Foreign Worker Replacements are Treated Like Indentured Servants"). Some reports indicate that some of Musk's biggest H1-B critics, like Loomer, have lost their blue verification checks on Twitter as a result of the bruhaha.
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18Greg Abbott releases billboard campaign in Central and South America threatening that migrant women will "pay for the trip with their bodies."
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18Valentina Gomez proposes public executions of undocumented immigrants.
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18Tristan Tate: "Germany was literally safer for Germans under Hitler."
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23Mark Robinson is still using the "minisoldr" handle, despite repeated denials that the handle doesn't belong to him.
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25Trump, completely ignoring that treaties are just as much the law of the land as any statute Congress comes up with, threatens to force Panama to "return" the Panama Canal to the US citing as justification that if the US doesn't bully Panama into handing over its own sovereign territory, someone else will.
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26Flat Earther admits they were wrong after seeing a 24 hour sun in Antarctica. As evidenced by the comment section in this post and to the surprise of nobody, the Flat Earth community isn't taking this well at all.
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30Elon Musk denied access to Space X's government secrets because of his copious drug usage and contacts with foreign entities.
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17Steve Bannon: "There's so many hard cuts that have to happen, like you're talking about out of food stamps. Nobody's going to be cheerful about cutting food stamps, but you're right, you got to."
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23The Times of Israel: Why the Irish hate the Jews: "The sectarian warfare between Protestants and Catholics in Ireland has resulted in the societal retardation of their culture when it comes to religion. They still feel their ancient Christianity in their bones. And as a result, their views of Jews are closer to those of medieval Christians than those of modern ones."
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9Steve Bannon suggests Trump should run a third time.
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18New York Post: "Cali counted votes until Republican lost — do Dems just not care how bad this looks?"
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36The Times of Israel posts article claiming that Israel needs "Lebensraum". Seriously, that is the exact word they used.
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20Four Neo-Nazi account owners on X were doxxed by the Texas Observer: Cyan Cruz (TheOfficial1984); Michael Gramer (9mm_SMG); JP Morgan Chase Vice President in Plano, Texas, Robert “Bobby” Thorne (Noble1945/Noble_x_x_); and civilian Navy employee Anthony Provenzano (utism_/JohnnyBullzeye).
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30Matt Walsh: "We are not gonna rest ... until trans ideology is entirely erased from the earth."
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24Dinesh D'Souza has admitted that his conspiracy theory election denial film 2000 Mules contained "inaccurate information" while settling a lawsuit from a Georgia voter he wrongly accused of fraud. True the Vote, an election denial organization, is furious.
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24"Trump's comment about Canada becoming the 51st state if it can't handle tariffs was clearly a joke" Canada's Public Safety Minister says nervously.
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16Florida introduces anti-chemtrail bill.
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17Drunken Trump nominee caught on stage with strippers. (Now see if you can guess which one!)